Our skin bears a lot! Dullness to inflammation to acne - the list of skin woes is endless. While there are numerous therapies and skincare routines available, sometimes all you need is a little bit of ice.
Yes, you heard it right! Skin icing is a quick, easy and cost-effective approach to help fix some regular skin troubles.
What is skin icing?
"Skin icing is where you take an ice cube or maybe you take an ice ball or an ice roller and rub it across your face for about a few minutes. Don't do it too much or you will give yourself a freeze burn." (Dr. Kiran Sethi, MD, Integrative Aesthetic and Skin Specialist and Founder of Isya Aesthetics)
How to do skin icing?
Take an ice cube and put it in a towel or you can actually buy those ice rollers on Amazon. If you are using an ice roller, you will rub it in an upwards motion across the area. Or you take the ice cube. You can take it plain but ideally, you wrap it in something and you rub it on the whole area, pass by pass vertically or horizontally. Go two passes on the whole face and that's enough. After that dry your face, put moisturiser on and voila! (Dr. Kiran Sethi, MD, Integrative Aesthetic and Skin Specialist and Founder of Isya Aesthetics)
What are the advantages of skin icing?
Skin icing will reduce inflammation by forcing blood vessels to constrict. It will also make the pores constrict because of the cold immediate response by the arrector pili muscles of the hair. The advantages are that your pores will look a bit tighter, your skin will be less inflamed and overall you will feel calmer and brighter. (Dr. Kiran Sethi, MD, Integrative Aesthetic and Skin Specialist and Founder of Isya Aesthetics)
What are the disadvantages of doing skin icing?
The negatives are that the result can last minutes to an hour maximum. It is not going to give you a long-lasting improvement and sometimes if you do it wrong you can actually give yourself a freeze burn if you do it for too long. Or you can make your skin drier or more irritated. (Dr. Kiran Sethi, MD, Integrative Aesthetic and Skin Specialist and Founder of Isya Aesthetics)
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